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Partisan Gerrymandering and the Construction of American Democracy /
Published 2013Table of Contents: “…Gerrymandering and the evolution of American politics -- Districting and the construction of early American democracy -- The origins of single-member districts -- The strategic timing of congressional redistricting -- Stacking the states, stacking the house: the partisan consequences of congressional redistricting -- Electoral competition and critical elections -- A congress of strangers: gerrymandering and legislative turnover -- The partisan impact of malapportionment -- From turbulence to stasis, 1900-1964 -- Gerrymandering and the future of American politics.…”
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The Power of People : Congressional Competition, Public Attention, and Voter Retribution /
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The African National Congress and the Regeneration of Political Power /
Published 2011Table of Contents: “…Introduction : ANC pathways to claiming, consolidating and regenerating political power -- Aluta continua, from Polokwane to Mangaung -- The ANC and its pillars of people's power -- Power through the ballot and the brick -- Participation and power through co-operation, complicity, co-optation -- Power through elections: serial declines, but the centre holds -- Floor-crossing and entrenchment of ANC electoral supremacy -- Subjugation and demise of the (new) National Party -- Countered and cowered Congress of the People (Cope) -- State institutions as site of struggle in ANC wars -- Between centralisation and centralism : the Presidency of South Africa -- Policy, pursuit of the 'turn to the left' and the paradox of continuity -- ANC at a critical conjuncture : movement, people, elections, governance.…”
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Downsizing Democracy : How America Sidelined Its Citizens and Privatized Its Public /
Published 2019Table of Contents: “…From popular to personal democracy -- The rise and fall of the citizen -- Elections without voters -- Political parties: the old patronage and the new -- Disunited we stand -- From masses to mailing lists -- The jurisprudence of personal democracy -- Movements without members -- Privatizing the public -- Does anyone need citizens?…”
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